Notice of Clarification to the Award Budget for PAR-17-310 "Cellular and Molecular Biology of Complex Brain Disorders (R21)"
Notice NOT-MH-17-046 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts (Source: NIH Funding Opportunities (Notices, PA, RFA))
Source: NIH Funding Opportunities (Notices, PA, RFA) - August 25, 2017 Category: Research Source Type: funding

Notice of Correction to the Award Budget for the RFA-RM-17-017 "Model Organism Screening Center for the Undiagnosed Diseases Network (UDN) Phase II (U54)"
Notice NOT-RM-17-037 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts (Source: NIH Funding Opportunities (Notices, PA, RFA))
Source: NIH Funding Opportunities (Notices, PA, RFA) - August 17, 2017 Category: Research Source Type: funding

Fiscal Policy and Salary Cap Guidance for 2017
Now that the NIH fiscal year 2017 budget is signed into law, NIH published its final fiscal policy and salary cap guidance for this year. In general, NIH will restore reductions to non-competing continuation awards made this year while we were operating under a pending budget (continuing resolution).  Additional details on fiscal operations, including specific funding strategies for ICs and any exceptions, will be posted at the NIH funding strategies page. The salary cap remains unchanged from the interim guidance published in March. The direct salary limitation follows Executive Level II of the Federal Executive pay sca...
Source: NIH Extramural Nexus - July 25, 2017 Category: Research Authors: NIH Staff Tags: Top Stories Source Type: funding

Notice of Modification to RFA-HS-17-011 "AHRQ National Research Service Award (NRSA) Institutional Research Training Grant (T32) Other Award Budget Information"
Notice NOT-HS-17-018 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts (Source: NIH Funding Opportunities (Notices, PA, RFA))
Source: NIH Funding Opportunities (Notices, PA, RFA) - July 24, 2017 Category: Research Source Type: funding

Notice of Clarification to the Award Budget for PAR-16-446 "NIAMS Clinical Trial Planning Grant (R34)
Notice NOT-AR-17-018 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts (Source: NIH Funding Opportunities (Notices, PA, RFA))
Source: NIH Funding Opportunities (Notices, PA, RFA) - July 21, 2017 Category: Research Source Type: funding

EPSCoR Research Infrastructure Improvement Program Track-1: (RII Track-1)
Letter of Intent Deadline Date: July 31, 2017 Program Guidelines: NSF 17-562The Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) is designed to fulfill the mandate of the National Science Foundation (NSF) to promote scientific progress nationwide. A jurisdiction is eligible to participate in EPSCoR programs if its level of NSF research support is equal to or less than 0.75 percent of the total NSF research and related activities budget for the most recent three year period (see RII  (Source: NSF Upcoming Due Dates)
Source: NSF Upcoming Due Dates - July 2, 2017 Category: Science Source Type: funding

Available Now: Legislative Mandates for the Use of NIH Funding
NIH’s fiscal year 2017 budget was signed into law on May 5. As we do every year, we have posted a list of the current statutory limits on the use of NIH grant, cooperative agreement, and contract awards. Read NIH Guide Notice NOT-OD-17-075 for more information about these legislative mandates. (Source: NIH Extramural Nexus)
Source: NIH Extramural Nexus - July 1, 2017 Category: Research Authors: NIH Staff Tags: Top Stories Source Type: funding

NIH ’s Next Generation Researchers Initiative
We describe these approaches on a new web page that we will continue to update. Our activities address both research workforce stability, and evaluation of our investments in research. In brief, NIH will: commit substantial funds from NIH’s base budget, beginning this year with about $210 million, and ramping to approximately $1.1 billion per year after five years (pending availability of funds) to support additional meritorious early-stage investigators and mid-career investigators create a central inventory and track the impact of NIH institute and center funding decisions for early- and mid-career investigators ...
Source: NIH Extramural Nexus - June 16, 2017 Category: Research Authors: Mike Lauer Tags: blog Open Mike ACD Biomedical Workforce Grant support index GSI NextGen Source Type: funding

Notice of Clarification to Award Budget Instructions for PA-17-138 " Administrative Supplements to Promote Research Collaborations on Fusion Oncoproteins as Drivers of Childhood Cancer (Admin Supp)"
Notice NOT-CA-17-066 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts (Source: NIH Funding Opportunities (Notices, PA, RFA))
Source: NIH Funding Opportunities (Notices, PA, RFA) - May 24, 2017 Category: Research Source Type: funding

Exploratory Clinical Trial Grants in Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (R21)
Funding Opportunity PAR-17-293 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts. This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is designed to facilitate clinical trials that can be completed within a limited timeframe and budget. A broad range of types of exploratory studies may be submitted to this FOA. The trials must address research questions related to the mission and goals of the NIAMS and may evaluate interventions with drugs, biologics, devices, or surgical, dietary, behavioral or rehabilitation therapies. (Source: NIH Funding Opportunities (Notices, PA, RFA))
Source: NIH Funding Opportunities (Notices, PA, RFA) - May 17, 2017 Category: Research Source Type: funding

Notice of Change to the Award Budget Limit for PAR-16-148 "Limited Competition: Small Grant Program for NIDDK K01/K08/K23 Recipients (R03)"
Notice NOT-DK-17-012 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts (Source: NIH Funding Opportunities (Notices, PA, RFA))
Source: NIH Funding Opportunities (Notices, PA, RFA) - May 12, 2017 Category: Research Source Type: funding

Implementing Limits on Grant Support to Strengthen the Biomedical Research Workforce
NIH realizes that, as stewards of the American investment in biomedical sciences, we must do all we can to protect the future of the biomedical research enterprise, taking additional measures regardless of our budget situation. In the opening pages of this blog, we noted that our increasingly hypercompetitive system is threatening the future of biomedical research and of the hundreds of thousands of scientists who we look to for discovering tomorrow’s cures. This is a strange irony, given that the last 25-50 years have been times of extraordinary discovery and progress in basic, translational, and applied science. Death ...
Source: NIH Extramural Nexus - May 2, 2017 Category: Research Authors: Mike Lauer Tags: blog Open Mike biomedical research workforce funding Source Type: funding

Getting Ready for the Next NIH Forms Update
From time to time we need to update our application forms to maintain consistency with Grants.gov and Office of Management and Budget federal-wide requirements, and to incorporate changes in NIH policies and processes. NIH issued a Guide notice on April 27, announcing how we are gearing up for a transition from the current forms (“FORMS-D”) to the next iteration of forms for due dates on or after January 25, 2018. Highlights of the new FORMS-E will include: Consolidation of human subjects, inclusion enrollment, and clinical trial information previously collected across multiple agency forms Expansion and use of discre...
Source: NIH Extramural Nexus - April 30, 2017 Category: Research Authors: NIH Staff Tags: Top Stories Source Type: funding

Revision Applications for Regenerative Medicine Innovation Projects (RMIP) (U01)
Funding Opportunity RFA-HL-17-034 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) and participating NIH Institutes and Centers (ICs) and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), through this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA), invite revision applications, from investigators with active U01 research project awards that will support clinical research studies aimed at furthering the field of regenerative medicine (RM) using adult stem cells. A competing revision is a request for an increase in support in a current budget period for expansion of the project's approved scope or r...
Source: NIH Funding Opportunities (Notices, PA, RFA) - April 28, 2017 Category: Research Source Type: funding

Revision Applications for Regenerative Medicine Innovation Projects (RMIP) (R24)
Funding Opportunity RFA-HL-17-030 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) and participating NIH Institutes and Centers (ICs) and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), through this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA), invite revision applications, from investigators with active R24 research project awards that will support clinical research studies aimed at furthering the field of regenerative medicine (RM) using adult stem cells. A competing revision is a request for an increase in support in a current budget period for expansion of the project's approved scope or r...
Source: NIH Funding Opportunities (Notices, PA, RFA) - April 28, 2017 Category: Research Source Type: funding